The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
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Snowden: Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance
The act of whistleblowing increasingly has become an act of political resistance: the whistleblower raises the alarm and lifts the lamp, inheriting the legacy of a line of Americans that begins with Paul Revere.
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Drones, IBM and the Big Data of Death
A study produced for the Defense Department by IBM consultants opens a window into the deep guts of the military-industrial complex, where the technologies of assassination and corporate sales converge.
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The Drone Papers, Part IV: Firing Blind
Newly obtained documents show the U.S. military has faced “critical shortfalls” in the technology and intelligence it uses to find and kill suspected terrorists with drones in Yemen and Somalia.
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Artists Target Drone Operators With A Giant Portrait of One of Their Victims
The portrait is entitled #NotABugSplat – a reference to the term “bugsplat,” used by drone operators to dehumanize victims of their missile strikes.
